Blog Posts

  • Vaccine Hesitancy: An Apologia

    A defense of vaccine hesitancy.

  • 5 Reasons to Read “Faithful Leaders”

    A two thumbs up review of Faithful Leaders, by Rico Tice.

  • The Worst Reward

    Three little children left the Dollar Tree clutching their rewards with two contented parents. A rare moment of parenting success – or at least it felt more like success than other moments do. We had challenged each of our children in an area that they needed to improve in a behavior, and then we had…

  • When God Says “It is Good”

    When God Says “It is Good”

    It has been twelve weeks since we lost Penny and her death still weighs on our hearts daily. In a moment of tiredness I miss the daughter I never got to properly know. When my other three children are playing I grieve that they will not experience her joining them in their roller coaster ride…

  • I’m Retiring “Post-Christian” from My Vocabulary

    I have been using the phrase “post-Christian” in sermons for a while now to try to help my congregants navigate our society. But I have decided to retire it. I had been using the term because it does accurately capture the loss of a “center” in American culture. This center consisted of concepts such as…